Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a great deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk . |
| 2 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 3 | The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity . |
| 4 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 5 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 6 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 7 | The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) . |
| 8 | The role of community education in the process of social change has aroused a great deal of discussion and action by socially committed adult educators over the last two decades . |
| 9 | That has aroused a great deal of fear and was referred to in a recent Health and Safety Executive report . |
| 10 | He now shares a house near the hostel with four other care-leavers and has stabilised a great deal . |
| 11 | The House has given a great deal of detailed attention to the Bill , and the promoters and the petitioners have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the case . |
| 12 | I still regret it , but I 'm afraid the Prime Minister has to appear a great deal on the media . |
| 13 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
| 14 | Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . |
| 15 | The general practice fundholding scheme , which was introduced as part of the package of organisational reforms to the NHS in April 1991 , has attracted a great deal of comment . |
| 16 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 17 | Over the last two decades the study of code switching has attracted a great deal of interest from researchers working in different areas of linguistics . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the researcher needs to know a great deal about likely extraneous factors so that they can be controlled . |
| 19 | Software has grown a great deal , both in size and complexity . |
| 20 | Marketing has spawned a great deal of ‘ mumbo-jumbo ’ but its prevailing theme is people , at the heart of our business are the children and their parents and the community that we all serve . |
| 21 | The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large . |
| 22 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
| 23 | ‘ She has suffered a great deal . |
| 24 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 25 | ‘ He was depressed and has suffered a great deal of mental anguish . ’ |
| 26 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 27 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 28 | Since those days she has done a great deal of work with Steven Berkoff — particularly in his play for two people , Decadence which she has played in London , Los Angeles and Dublin . |
| 29 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |